Bo: Well, we're ready to heat
things up with the DiMeras.
Can't do it without you.

Quinn: Hey, ma.

Vivian: God.
Please don't call me that.

Quinn: Oh, if you really
didn't want me to call you that,
your face wouldn't light up when
I do.

Vivian: Look, I'm--I'm really
not a morning person.

Quinn: Yeah, see, that's why
I came here to Salem.
To find out those telling little
details about you.
Not a morning person.
Likes to bury people alive.
Portrait of a mum.

Vivian: You did come for
revenge, didn't you?
Only you're not going to kill
me, you're just going to torture
me with this charade of family
life.

Quinn: It's not a charade.
I firmly believe that a boy's
best friend is his mother.

Vivian: I knew I should have
ordered room service.

Quinn: You know, I've been
thinking.
We've spent a lot of our time
discussing why I came here to
Salem.
But I realized, I have no idea
why you came back here.

Daniel: Okay, okay.
You see that spike right there?
I-I don't really like that.

Carly: Oh, okay.
Do you want me to um, uh,
readjust the medicine?

Daniel: Um...no.
You know what I want?
Just reorder some tests.
Will you do that?

Carly: Okay, look, I'll set
that up, then.

Daniel: Okay, great.

Carly: Excuse me.

Daniel: Oh, you know, hold on
one second.
Oh, wait, I got a phone call.
All right...

Carly: Oh!

Jennifer: You. Hi.

Carly: Hi.

Jennifer: What's wrong?
Is everything okay?

EJ: Well, say something,
please.
You're starting to worry me.

Taylor: EJ, the ring, it's--
it's...it's beautiful, and...
it means the world that you want
to marry me, but...
I can't.
I just can't.

Stefano: [Sighs]
I don't know that Rafael killed
Fay.

Lexie: Taylor said she heard
him say that he pushed or threw
her down those stairs.

Stefano: She did not die
here, you know that.

Lexie: Don't split hairs with
me, father.
She wouldn't have been in that
damn hospital, she wouldn't have
had that heart attack, if she
hadn't been assaulted.

Stefano: What the hell are
you angry at me for?

Lexie: Why the hell was Rafe
in this house?
Why did he attack Fay?

Stefano: [Sighs]
He is not in his right mind.
Even Samantha has said, ever
since that accident, he has not
been himself.

Lexie: Mm-mm.
Thousands of people are in
accidents far worse than that.
They don't go around attacking
people.

Stefano: [Stutters]
He was in an accident, and he
lives with Samantha.
Good god knows what that would
do to any man.

Lexie: Oh, would you stop it?
You--you keep making these
jokes, but I know--I know you're
worried, father.
There is twice the normal
security around this house.
You're worried about Rafe,
aren't you?
Is that why you were in such a
hurry to leave?

Stefano: No.
I am going to try...to talk
Elvis out of the biggest mistake
of his life.

EJ: Saying no?

Taylor: I know that you are
not used to hearing it, but...
I'm saying no.

EJ: I see.

Taylor: EJ, sweetheart, come
here.
Just sit here.
Come on.

EJ: Are you sure you don't
want to think about this?
We love each other.
Please, we would be so happy
together.

EJ: But they don't have to
be.
I mean, I don't...
maybe you're just being nice.
Maybe you, uh...
maybe you don't want to tell me
that you don't love me anymore.

Taylor: Oh.
That would be so much simpler
right now if that were true.
EJ, did you think about this?

EJ: Did I think about it?
I'm asking you to marry me,
Taylor.
I...I gave it some thought.

Taylor: But I just found out
that my mother was murdered, and
the man that did it, he is at
large.
You were just out of the
hospital.
You--your father has banned me
from his house.
And...oh, yeah.
You're married to my sister.
It's not exactly the ideal
circumstance for a proposal.

EJ: I didn't expect this.

Taylor: I know.

EJ: No.
I mean, I didn't think...
that after a woman had turned
down my proposal of marriage,
and then points out to me what
an insensitive idiot I was to
even ask in the first place...
I didn't think I would love her
even more for it.

Taylor: [Laughs]
Oh, you're good.
You're good.

EJ: I'm evidently not that
good.
You haven't got the ring on your
finger.
Just--just tell me I didn't
screw things up between us.
I don't think I could bear that.

Taylor: Will you tell me...
tell me what it is you think we
have.

Bo: We need you to lay low
for a while, hoping that EJ and
Stefano unspool.

Rafe: Well, actually, they
could have already and we just
don't know about it.
I gotta tell you, it would've
been really nice if that bug
that Sami planted had just
worked.

Bo: Yeah.
Can't seem to catch any luck.

Hope: Let me talk to Rafe.

Bo: Hey, man, I'm gonna put
you on speaker.

Hope: Rafe, I know it's
frustrating, but it's gotta be
hell for the DiMeras not knowing
where their guy is.
I think they could crack under
the pressure.

Bo: Especially if we ramp
things up a bit.

Rafe: Meaning?

Bo: Meaning I'm going to ask
you to do something pretty
dangerous.

Rafe: Well, you don't have to
sell me on it, Bo.
Just tell me when and where.

Melanie: Hey.
Mind if I join you?

Abigail: Hey.
Yeah, have a seat.

Melanie: You okay?
You look, like, frustrated.

Abigail: Yeah, this is just,
uh...this is how I look after
dealing with Chad.
Correction, this is how I look
after dealing with Chad DiMera.

Melanie: Ooh.
Well, that is a very potent last
name.

Abigail: See, uh, it's--it's
weird.
I think that he's totally
convinced that he can handle it.
You know, being a DiMera.
And I...I like him, Melanie.
I really like him.
But it's like when he talks
about Stefano, he thinks that
he's cool or something, you
know, and not a thug.
And I get that he really--that
Chad, I get that he really wants
a dad in his life.
But...
uh, that was coherent.

Melanie: No, uh, I think I
got--I mean, well, look.
My last name was Kiriakis for a
while, so I kind of understand
what you're talking about.

Abigail: You know what I
think?
I think that we should raise
boys in laboratories with no
influence from their families
until they are old enough for us
to date them.

Melanie: I like that idea.
And then I think that we
should--we should train them.

Abigail: Oh, genius.
Yes.
Oh, god.

Melanie: Are you sure that's
all that's bothering you?

Abigail: Yeah, you want there
to be something more?

Melanie: No, no.
I just, um, I was--maybe--
I was just thinking, now--now
that our parents are--are
getting serious...
how do you feel about my dad
dating your mom?

Carly: Yeah, you just
startled me, that's all.

Jennifer: Really?
The way you were rushing out, it
just seemed like something bad
had happened.

Carly: I'm--I'm pressed for
time.
I have appointments coming up,
and I left my phone at home, so
I just have enough time to go
there and come back.
I'll see you later, okay?

Daniel: Hey, there you are.

Jennifer: Hey.

Daniel: I was looking for
you.
I have a very serious question
for you.
So, what do you think?

Jennifer: What?
Um, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, what did you say?

Daniel: I'm flattered.
I asked if you were busy this
weekend--kind of rakishly, I
might add--and I brought you to
stunned silence.

Jennifer: Oh, I'm sorry.
I, um--okay, I am not busy this
weekend.
And, uh, I didn't know that was
rakishness.
I thought it was your onion
bagel that disagreed with you.

Daniel: Tell me why I like
you again?

Jennifer: Um, I'm adorable?

Daniel: Yeah...

Jennifer: Daniel, I gotta go.
I gotta go right now.

Daniel: All right.
Another P.R. Emergency, I guess.
[Exhales]
Wow.

Bo: Our guy watching the
house says that EJ isn't there
but Stefano is.
He's, uh, talking to Lexie.

Hope: I'm starting to think
he's never going to leave the
house.

Bo: Eh.
If I know Stefano, he'll want to
be in on the hunt for Rafe.
Probably insist on killing him
himself.

Hope: I agree.
Which is exactly why we need to
get to them before they get to
Rafe.

Bo: Yeah.

Stefano: And now his great
idea is to ask Taylor to marry
him.

Lexie: And you object and are
thinking of interfering.
How new and unusual.
How out of character.

Stefano: [Sighs]
I have never found sarcasm
attractive.

Lexie: Father.
We're talking about EJ.
If there is anyone on this
earth more stubborn than you,
it's him.
I mean, what--what outcome do
you see coming from barging in
on this very personal, private
moment?

Stefano: It gives me the
right to say "I told you so"
when it all blows up in his
face.

Lexie: [Laughs]
You are unbelievable!

Stefano: Eh.

Lexie: Well, at least you're
honest.

Stefano: Eh.

Lexie: [Short laugh]

Stefano: [Groaning]
Women.
Wives.
Always been Elvis's Achilles
heel.
But this is different.
I mean...here we have Samantha.
She's an ambitious schemer, eh?
Nicole is a money-grubbing slut.
And, uh...Taylor...
she's a decent, moral woman.
Hmm.
She is the most dangerous of
them all.

EJ: What do we have?
Taylor, what do we have?
[Scoffs]
We love one another.
And we--we want--we need to be
together.
That hasn't changed for me.

Taylor: Okay, okay.
That's the love part, but...
come on, did it ever make us
happy?

EJ: When we were alone
together?
Absolutely.

Taylor: Okay, but you didn't
ask me to be alone with you.
You asked me to marry you.
You asked me to spend a life
with you.
And honestly, sweetheart, you
are never alone.
You are totally and completely
ensnared with--by your family.
And--and that--that house.

EJ: Is that what this is
about?

Taylor: I-I don't know.
I don't know, okay?
I don't know what this is about.
I don't know exactly what it is
I am feeling right now.
Or--it's--
this is no time to make this
decision.

EJ: So what, you just--you
just want to wait until all of
these things are settled?

Taylor: Or at least settled
down.
Yeah.
And then we can talk.

EJ: Talk.
Oh, talk?
No, I disagree, Taylor.
I think that we should make a
decision when these things are
up in the air.
When they're mixed up.
When--when it would be illogical
or irrational or impulsive or
romantic.
I think we should just agree to
get married.
And if we're not going to get
married, I think we should call
it a day.

Quinn: So you still haven't
answered my question.
Why did you come back here to
Salem?

Quinn: I did find out you
married Victor Kiriakis while
you were here.
I guess my invitation must've
got lost in the mail.

Vivian: Now, that was a
lovely day.
All the people I despise the
most in one little room.

Quinn: The marriage didn't
last, did it?

Vivian: Well, you know.
Sometimes a great love and a
great passion are a
conflagration instead of a
slow-burning fire.

Quinn: And he got ticked off
you put his girlfriend in a
coffin.

Vivian: Oh, you have been
checking up.

Quinn: So why don't you just
level with me?
All right?
Come on, ma, open up.
Let--let's start building that
bridge.

Vivian: I hate it when you do
that.

Quinn: I know.
Okay, here's what I think.
I think you came back here for
the same reason you think I did.
Revenge.
You came back to get
Carly manning...
and failed miserably.

Carly: [Sighs]

Jennifer: Did you find your
phone?

Carly: What?
No, I just--I got--I just got
here.
I...what...
what are you doing here?

Jennifer: Well, I guess for
lack of a better term, you would
call this an intervention,
Carly.

Lexie: [Sighs]
I'm sure I'm wasting my breath
telling you not to interfere.
Since when do you listen to my
advice?

Stefano: Since...never.
[Chuckles]
Now, look.
You don't really believe I could
lose him because of this, huh?

Lexie: Well, I mean, you said
yourself that Taylor might just
be the most dangerous woman he's
ever been involved with.

Stefano: Well...marriage is
not for these two.
I mean, she doesn't want this
life.

Lexie: Maybe he'll give it up
for her.

Stefano: I'm afraid it's too
late for that.

Taylor: Okay, maybe you
haven't noticed this about me,
but I really--I really don't
like ultimatums.

EJ: I-I know that.

Taylor: Okay, and if you
think that you're going to scare
me into saying yes to something
as important as getting married,
you're sorely mistaken.

EJ: This is not a ploy.
It's not, all right?
I understand ploys don't work
with you.

Taylor: Okay, so let me be
clear about this.
You're saying that if I won't
marry you, then we should call
the whole thing off.

EJ: Bottom line is that the
way things are is the way that
things are going to stay.
Things aren't going to calm
down.
These issues are not going to
resolve themselves.
But we love each other because
we're compatible.
We love each other in spite of
everything.

Taylor: Uh...
so you're just asking me to take
a leap of faith?

EJ: Yes!
Yes.

Taylor: [Stuttering]

EJ: Yes.

Taylor: Okay, okay.
Listen to me, all right?
Just...
but are you saying that if--if--
I can't commit, make some big
commitment, then we need to
call it quits?

EJ: I'm saying...
if you have doubts about us,
then I don't think that we have
a chance.

Abigail: I keep telling you,
I have no problem with your dad
dating my mom.

Vivian: Carly manning
murdered my sweet Lawrence in
cold blood.
And as a result, your cousin
Nicholas is totally traumatized.
And she--she put a bullet
through her daughter, and she
walked away scot-free.
And yes, I want her to pay for
it.
And yes, I failed miserably.
And it torments me.
And you fling it in my face and
are surprised that it hurts my
feelings?

Quinn: So you've just given
up?

Vivian: Excuse me?

Quinn: It seems to me that
you've just thrown in the towel.

Vivian: You don't know who
this woman is.
She's made of Teflon.
Carly manning will do anything
to anyone, and no one has the
guts to stop her.

Carly: Wow.
You broke into my room?

Jennifer: Yeah, I'm way out
of line, Carly.
You're writing prescriptions for
Katerina von Leuschner?
Do you realize you could lose
your license for doing that?

Carly: You can't prove that.

Jennifer: That--that's what
you're concerned about?
Whether or not I can prove that?
You're lying to Daniel.
You're lying to your daughter.
You're lying to me.
You're risking the lives of your
patients--

Carly: No, no, that never
happened.
I was always in control.
You saw me with Daniel.
I helped save EJ's life.

Jennifer: Okay, so you're
admitting that you're high, but
you have it all under control,
right?
Isn't that what all addicts say,
Carly?
"Oh, I've got it under control.
I've got it all under control."

Carly: Stop calling me that!

Jennifer: Stop being that!
What is wrong with you that you
do not see the seriousness of
this?
What--what--what would have
happened if someone besides me
found this out, Carly?

Carly: Okay.
All right.
Look, I...it's over.
I made a mistake.
I made a big mistake.
It won't happen again, and I am
fine.

Jennifer: Oh, yeah, you're
fine.
I can see that.
Life gets so hard that you turn
to drugs in order to function,
but now everything's different.
Everything's just fine.
I'm fine now.
Right, Carly?
Is that what you're telling me?
I'm just fine--

Carly: Just stop that!
Just stop yelling at me, okay?

Jennifer: I would rather
strangle you right now, but I'm
not going to.

Carly: Mm.

Jennifer: I-I love you.
I look up to you.
I want my daughter to be like
you.
I am so mad at you that you are
doing this to yourself.
But look at me, right now.
I am going to do whatever it
takes to help you through this.

Taylor: Wait, wait, wait.

EJ: No.

Taylor: No what?

EJ: No, we're missing
something.

Taylor: Oh...
[Laughs]
[Clears throat]

EJ: Taylor.

Taylor: Yes?

EJ: Will you marry me?

Taylor: Yes.
Yes, I will marry you.
[Giggles]

EJ: What?
Oh, god.
Would you just go away?
Please?

Stefano: Go away?
No.
No, no, no, no.
It seems that there are
congratulations in order here.
Taylor, welcome to the family.
Elvis is a lucky man.
Uh...would you excuse us for
just a moment?

EJ: No.

Taylor: [Stammering]
EJ. EJ?
We just took a leap of faith.
Right?

EJ: Right.

Taylor: So if your father
needs to speak to you...
doesn't change anything between
the two of us.
Oh.
Thank you.

EJ: I know what you're going
to say, and I don't want to hear
it.

Stefano: No, you don't.
I'm not here to rain on your
parade, all right?
I'm here to tell you that we
have some terrible problems.

Rafe: [Airplane noises]
[Laughs]
You know, it had been a long
time since I'd seen Johnny, so I
figured I'd surprise him and
pick him up at school.
It was a good surprise, wasn't
it, my man?

Mary: Let me just find
Mr. DiMera and tell him you're
here.

Rafe: Yeah, no need to do
that.
The DiMeras are not here right
now.
Hey, listen.
Buddy.
Will you give them a message for
me, since I missed them?
'Cause I care about them so
much?
Just tell 'em next time they
come down those stairs, I want
them to be really, really
careful.
Okay.

Stefano: She's a lovely girl.

EJ: [Sighs]

Stefano: I wonder if her
sister is going to give her a
bridal shower.

EJ: Mm.
You're boring me, father.

Stefano: Oh, my goodness
gracious, we must never do that.
Uh-huh.
First, let me say that I
certainly want you to be happy.
And I also know that there is
nothing I could say or do to
change your mind when it comes
to this marriage.

EJ: Thank you.
Can I get back to my life now,
please?

Stefano: There is one more
thing I have to tell you.

EJ: What's that?

Stefano: And that thing could
change everything.

Carly: Okay.
Listen, we don't have anything
to talk about.
I had a problem, and it's over.

Jennifer: And...and I accept
that...
because you say so.

Carly: [Scoffs]
You think I'm lying?

Jennifer: No, I don't think
that you are facing reality,
Carly.

Carly: I don't face reality?
I don't face reality?
The reality of my life is that I
lost Bo.
I lost a patient.
I lost my son.
I lost...
[Sighs]
I was overwhelmed, okay, and I
screwed up.
I'm not overwhelmed anymore.
I've faced reality.

Jennifer: You have been the
one stealing the drugs from the
hospital, haven't you?

Carly: And I know how you
feel about that.
That's betrayal of trust.

Jennifer: No, you know how I
feel?
I feel that the Carly that I
know...
to know that you were driven to
that, things must have been
really, really bad.

Carly: They were.
They were bad.
Then.
Not now.

Jennifer: You are so adamant
about this, Carly--

Carly: Listen, Jennifer, oh,
my gosh.
I know.
I know how much you want to help
me, and I know that you love me.
But quitting wasn't easy.
Okay?
And you watching over me and
second-guessing everything I do
doesn't make it any easier for
me.

Jennifer: All right.
Just look at me and listen to
me, okay?
I-I am so worried about you.
I am worried that--that you have
not talked to anybody about
this, and I want you to tell me.
I want you to tell me
everything.
I'm not going to judge you, I
swear.

Carly: I know you won't.
I know you won't.
Because you love me.
There's nothing to talk about.

Jennifer: That's not true.

Carly: That's not your call.

Jennifer: Carly--

Carly: Listen to me, please?
I need some alone time here,
because I have to go back to the
hospital, and this has been
really upsetting.
Please.

Jennifer: Okay.
That's fine.
I-I want you to tell me what is
going on if you need to.
Please.

Carly: I will.
I will.
Thank you so much for caring
about me.

Jennifer: Okay.
I'll see you later, then.

Carly: Okay.

Jennifer: All right, Carly.
You know what, if you are not
going to fix things on your own,
I will.

Taylor: Hey, Lex.
Hey.

Lexie: Hi.

Taylor: You have a second?

Lexie: Yeah.
Yeah, sure.

Taylor: Um, I have some news.
And I thought that you're
probably the only person who
would pretend to be happy.

Lexie: [Gasps]
Oh.
You said yes.

Taylor: I mean, it's close.
But this is really--you could
pretend to be happy, just a
little bit more.

Lexie: I'm sorry.
I'm sor--oh, girl, you know I am
so happy for you.
You know I truly am.
I mean, I-I know how much my
brother loves you.

Taylor: Yeah...

Lexie: Yeah.

Taylor: You know, he kind of,
um, pushed the issue.
I wasn't really certain this was
the right time with everything
going on.
But, you know, he said if we
waited, then, for everything to
be right, it'd never happen.
So...
you know, when you get engaged,
you think about calling your
mother.

Lexie: I know.

Taylor: I can't.

Lexie: I know.

Taylor: And the man who
killed her is out there, free.
Free to kill again.

Javier: [Muffled yelling]
Hope, huh?

[Muffled yell]

Hope: He's unconscious.

Bo: Got the DiMera frequency.

Walter: Ted, ted, this is
Walter.
I need you to check in.
What the hell is going on here?

Stefano: Well, he's trying to
taunt us, you see.
Saying that he is in charge of
everything.
[Sighs]
If it hadn't been for you, we
could have gotten rid of him at
the right time.

EJ: No good deed goes
unpunished.

Stefano: Uh-huh.

[Cell phone rings]

EJ: Yes, Mary?

Mary: I thought you should
know, sir.
Mr. Hernandez brought Johnny
home from school today.

EJ: What?

Abigail: So I guess the fact
is, what we think simply doesn't
matter.

Melanie: Sure.
I mean, I suppose at a certain
age, parents just stop
listening.

Abigail: And we have to give
them the chance to make their
own decisions.

Melanie: Question is, are
they ready for that?

Abigail: [Blows out]

[Both laugh]

Daniel: Oh, jeez, there you
are.
Hey, guess what.

Jennifer: Oh!

Daniel: Oh, sorry.
Didn't mean to scare you.
I've been busy.
And I want to know what you'd
like to say about a weekend in
san Francisco.
Right?
Friday, Lexie told me about this
great restaurant in Nob hill.
And then we can do Saturday
brunch on the fisherman's wharf.

Jennifer: I am worried that--
that you have not talked to
anybody about this, and I want
you to tell me.
I want you to tell me
everything.
I'm not going to judge you, I
swear.

Carly: I know you won't.
I know you won't.
Because you love me.
There's nothing to talk about.

Jennifer: That's not true.

Carly: That's not your call.

Jennifer: [Sighs]
I am so sorry.
But I can't.
I-I can't go.

Quinn: I had this mate in
boarding school.
Had a very rocky relationship
with his father.
Then one summer, they decided to
sail the great barrier reef.
Close as can be ever since.

Vivian: How Australian.

Quinn: My point is, they
really got to know each other by
sharing an adventure.
Now, I have absolutely no
interest in sailing.

Vivian: I like yachts.

Quinn: But I am quite keen on
revenge.
What if we teamed up to pay
Carly manning back?
What if it was our own little
family project?

Vivian: You mean...make her
really, really pay?

Quinn: Make her wish she'd
never been born.

Vivian: I feel very close to
you at this moment.

Quinn: So it's a deal?

Vivian: How do we start?

Quinn: First things first.
We find out her weakness and
exploit it.

Carly: [Deep breaths]

Lawrence: I know what you're
thinking.
You think you can beat this
thing.
But you can't.
And you never will.

Rafe: I'm sure Mary's called
EJ by now.
God, I wish I could have seen
the look on his face when she
told him the news.

Hope: Yeah, things seem to be
going according to plan.

Rafe: Yeah.

Bo: Brady.
Are you serious?
No, no, no.
Just hang tight.
I'll--I'll take care of this.
We've got one hell of a problem.

Stefano: He picked up
Giovanni at school.

EJ: Yeah, he's still listed
as his stepfather, so--

Stefano: You're supposed to
take care of that.
But instead, you are out looking
for a ring for your insipid
little bookkeeper.

EJ: Enough, please, father.

Stefano: This has to be done
now.
We do not have a choice, all
right?
We have to eliminate Rafael.
My cut hurt!

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